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Banana Label Types

Banana labels stick on bananas and that's our definition of banana labels. But when you look around in the supermarkets of the world, you will see different kind of banana labels. You can find for example wrappers to keep several bananas togehter. Or you will find bananas in plastic bags and the brand information sticks on this bags or does lie in the pack. This article does give some examples of what we have found and try to categorize it. These catagories are not free from overlaps.

Please bear in mind, we also have a classification of catalog entries. For example are all the different Kellogg's label from Dole in an own catalog entry. Each individulal label is from type banana label and the whole catalog entry 'Dole: Kellogg's' is from type promotion. But this is a different story we do not discuss in this article.

Banana Label95% of our labels are of the classic kind 'banana label'. All other categories in this catalog are only in the sum 5% of what we have found.

John: "The Cambodia-Thailand trip was very good, and quite rewarding label wise. One interesting element was large size labels which we normally associate with bag or wrapper labels, but on my trip I often found the big ones directly on bananas-- but it varied from store to store with the same label. So I will classify them as banana labels."

Box LabelBox labels lie in the big large box in which bananas are delivered to the supermarked or stick at them. Usually the packer at a packing station have to put their ID at each box they are packing, so later when complains exist, the companies does now who was not careful enough to pack the bananas into the box.

Quite often this labels are quite similar to inspection labels, but they stick on the box and not on the banana.

DocumentationWhen variants exist, then it could be useful to add in the catalog entry a picture to show it in detail. It is rather a technical trick to add a banana label and change the headline to documentation. The much better solution is to add a picture in the description of the catalog entry. But anyway, we have got few documentations of whatever in the position usually a banana label is shown.

When you like to add a proove picture showing the label on bananas in a supermarked, then add it at the associated banana label and put the picture in the second position. The pictures in the first position is shown in the catalog and all other positions only when you click in the details of the label.

MisprintMisprints are a variant of a normal label, where in the print process a wrong colour is used or a color is just empty. It is difficult to say, if misprints are used on bananas or not. Sometimes our collectors in EC und CR have contact to the copy shop and are allowed to take the waste. So it is a good idea to check who has give a verification.

Promotion LabelPromotion labels have a small number of copies. For example when our new wholesale market hall opened here in Frankfurt, every visitor has got a banana as a present with and a banana label to remembering that day. Or the Paris marathon also had an own banana label for the athlets. And the home made labels of our collectos who add them to the letters are also classified as promotion.

RejectedThis labels are not banana labels and should be deleted from the catalog. But they are still in the catalog because a collector has added the label and thougth it could be one. Because we do not loose the comments and the verifications, the label is still there. From time to time when we think everybody is informed we delete this stuff from the catalog.

ReplicaFrom this label we do only have a fotocopy and not a picture so far. Especially in the old collection of Gerri and Erich we found few labels that are obvious a fotocopy or a c-print.

Trial LabelTrial or Test labels are used to test banana labels. For example our red ROSY label. This one had a new material / glue and it was tested at a banana farm, if it can be put quick on wet bananans. To distinguish it from the normal banana label it has got the colour red instead of blue. And we have got the MIGROS label with a farmnumber in the wrong county, that was only a test in the copyshop to check the quality, without testing it on bananas (proof prints).

How would you classify the price label shown in the gallery OTHERS? So far it would be a banana label in a catalog entry of the supermarket. Do we need a other category of banana label types? What else should be element of this category (Ripe, #4011, 1€, Sweet, ...)?